The top ten things that were winding up fans in 2012:
10. REFEREES CUTTING GOAL CELEBRATIONS SHORT
“Fine if the celebration is totally OTT, but refs are now in the practice of running up to players and telling them to get back to their own half as soon as the ball hits the back of the net. Let them celebrate for goodness sake! To be fair, this is clearly an order that has come down from on high. Of all the things that should be clamped down on, the FAT chooses this.”
“As long as the players don’t do it in front of the opposing fans, I can’t see any harm in it.”
9. TEAMS BEING ALLOWED TO MOVE AROUND THE COUNTRY/FRANCHISING
“Teams should represent the area they come from.”
“Coming from England the idea of franchise football is totally alien to me. And I don’t understand why my compatriots, who probably dislike MK D*ns, feel that it is OK to support franchise teams when it happens in Thailand.”
8. THE POLICE
“"Strutting Peacock" Policeman & Riot Police that add nothing to an event.”
“They don't do anything so why bother being there?”
7. STRETCHER BEARERS
“Is there any need for them to come on every time a player goes down? Especially as he’s usually faking it.”
“Does anyone remember Bedknobs and Broomsticks?”
6. THE TPL FIXTURE COMMITTEE
“They add nothing but manage to dilute any sense of competition and excitement with their sheer incompetence and stupidity.”
“Aaaarrrrgh! The endless fixture changes.”
“It’s no exaggeration to say that I’ve played in better organized Sunday morning pub leagues run by the local butcher.”
5. MEGAPHONES AND DANCING PLATFORMS
“All you need is a drum and something offensive to sing/shout about the opposing team.”
“Whatever happened to spontaneity?”
“Why on earth would you travel halfway across the country and stand with your back to the pitch? It’s understandable if you support Samut Songkhram but otherwise…”
4. PRESIDENTS/CHAIRMEN SITTING ON THE BENCH
“Does this mean that the physio and reserve keeper are allowed to quaff Champagne and caviar in the directors' box? Prodigiously wrong.”
“Does this happen anywhere else?”
“Not only sitting on the bench but prowling the Technical Area and coming on to the pitch.”
3. WALK OFFS
“Which are banned under the Laws of the Game but tolerated in Thailand. Mandatory 20 point deduction for the club and 1 year ban from football for the coach or coaches who order the players off. No excuses; no 'ifs' or 'buts'. I don't care if the ref pulled out a machine gun and slaughtered your back four. You don't walk off the pitch. Never. Ever.”
“As soon as a team walks off, the match should automatically be awarded to the opposition.”
“Thailand needs to get in line with the rest of the footballing world. How can they allow teams to walk off if they don’t agree with a decision. It’s a joke.”
2. FEIGNING INJURY
“Don't even know where to start. Widespread, depressing, irritating, predictable and so, so easy to stop. Just play on ref; they soon get up if you don't call the stretcher on.”
“Referees dishing out yellow cards would soon put a stop to it. We all know when they are faking it.”
“Being serious, this sickens me. There have been cases of players dying on the pitch. All footballers and the coaches who instruct them to do it should hang their heads in shame.”
1. HUDDLES
“I understood them when teams only used to huddle at a moment of crisis, like just before a penalty shoot-out. But now the huddle seems to be an obligatory part of the pre-match ritual. Even fans have been seen doing it!”
“Pre-kick-off huddles on the touchline - if the gaffer didn't say it in the dressing room, it wasn't that important.
Pre-kick-off huddles on the field - if you still can't remember what the gaffer said in the dressing room, or on the sideline, you're never going to remember it.”
“Aaaarrrgh! This drives me up the wall!”
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